Administror Notice

We pray that all is well for you in your local communities.¬†¬†The¬†USA's economy is currently receading at 6-8%, in excess of that of the depression in 1931, but we are still not calling it a depression.¬† I wanted to post a note on this not relating to prophecy, but to our own situation.¬† The costs of operating this and other sites over the years have been born primarily out of my personal income with little to no support from the community.¬† Due to my own finances, I am in a situation where I may have to take the sites off line for an extended period.¬† My income provides support for over 20 people, several who are disabled.¬† My ministry to them is in danger of failing as we are 60 days behind in our mortgage.¬† My personal take-home income has been cut this year by nearly $800 per month.¬† My wife lost $400 in hers.¬† While we struggled through last year, barely keeping afloat, this year we are running with $1200 less personal income than last year.¬† Although we have embedded advertising into the sites to produce a revenue stream, the income is amounts to pennies a day.¬† We do not intend to bring the site down permenantly, but may need to shut our servers down for a period of time to save on electricity and cut our commercial internet connection.¬† Please pray that Elohim provides the resources necessary to sustain our home as there are¬†a dozen¬†children and others that will have no home if we lose ours.

6 million people crying from the grave. Invisible people calling out their names Beautiful people taken from their homes. Oh, scattered people no where to goAnd the mother and fathers and the sons and daughters, they were carried away in trainsTheir bodies are broken and beaten and burned and their ashes fell down like rainThey were branded with a number and a yellow star and paraded around in shameThey called it a crime to be born a jew and in the name of god they were slain

A few days ago I had the opportunity to spend several hours with a native¬†Israeli - a Jewish person born, raised, and living in Israel.¬† I took advantage of the time to gather and discuss current events in relationship to prophecy.¬† Were they significant?¬† In what way?

What does it take to be an elder in the community? What might disqualify an individual from being recognised as an elder in the community? Are there really established standards? Who enforces these standards?There are many people in the community that teach Torah. There are many that teach about Messiah. There are still more who do both. Most of those teachers believe and practice what they teach. There are some that have secret teachings that they will only give to a trusted few.

Does your teacher pracice what they teach? It is important to know this. Following a hypocrit into a cess pool only makes you dirty.

Who is your teacher accountable to? Will he really submit to them when it matters?

One major distinction between Nazarene Judaism and mainline Judaism of the first century was in regard to their usage of the name of YHWH. While mainline Judaism had limited and in some cases even banned the use of the name of YHWH, Nazarenes were at time persecuted for not participating in this ban.', 'One major distinction between Nazarene Judaism and mainline Judaism of the first century was in regard to their usage of the name of YHWH. While mainline Judaism had limited and in some cases even banned the use of the name of YHWH, Nazarenes were at time persecuted for not participating in this ban.

Banning the Name

Although use of the Name of YHWH was clearly commonplace in Tenach times (Old Testament times), by the first century the Name was used only in the Temple. Even whe reading the Scriptures, mainline Judaism used euphemisms or substitutions instead of pronouncing the name (j.Meg. 71d). According to the Talmud, after the time of Simon the Just (a contemporary of Alexander the Great) the priest stopped using the Name in the blessings (b.Yoma 49b). The ban on the name however, did not continue in this form. Later in the Second Temple era the name was used, but only in the Temple as the Mishnah states:

‚Ä¶In the sanctuary one says the Name as it is written but in the provinces, with a euphemism‚Ä¶. (m.Sotah 7:6; b.Sotah 38b; m.Tamid 7:2)